All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

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

You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.

The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.