Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified.

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.