God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

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

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

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to which his powers are best adapted--he finds that which will give him the best development, and that by which he can best build up, or make, his manhood.

The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.