We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.