The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet.