I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

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.