There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

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

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose the bond That binds my spirit to its daily load, And give it angel wings, to fly beyond Its slumber-bound abode.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.