There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.

There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.

The soul, like the body, lives 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.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.