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.

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.

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.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.