Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.

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

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

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.