There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.

There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.