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

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.

This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.