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

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

Now comes the mystery.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.