A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

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.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; an life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides us from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.