There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or argument; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.