You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.