A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.