Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

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

In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.