Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.