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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.