That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.