The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.