I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.

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.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.