The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.