Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.

Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive with robust and generous sympathies. It is neither behind its age nor too far before it. It is up with its age, and ahead of it only just so far as to be able to lead its march. It cannot slumber, for activity is a necessity of its existence. It is no reservoir, but a fountain.

Idleness is paralysis.

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.