Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

Love is more just than justice.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.