Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

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

How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.