No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.