Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

There is an army of waiters in this world.

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.