A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

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

A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

Experience is the mother of custom.

Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.