Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.
Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.
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.