A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.