You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

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.

It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.