Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them.

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.