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.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.

We work and that is godlike.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.