The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.