Some people are proud of their humility.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

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

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.