For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.