Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty