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

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.

There are no twin souls in God's universe.

Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.