It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

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.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.