A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?