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

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

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.

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.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.