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.

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.

I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.