Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

The first questions are always to be asked, and the wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness of a child.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.