There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.