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.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

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

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.