Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
If you want learning, you must work for it.
Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.
It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.