Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

Storms purify the atmosphere.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.