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

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.