We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

We work and that is godlike.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.