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

To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.

Joys divided are increased.

Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.