We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.

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.

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

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

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.