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.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.