He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

It is never too late to do right.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.