Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.