Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

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.

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.