Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

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

God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.