Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

A babe is a mother's anchor.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.