We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough.

There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.

The best guide in life is strength.

No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on.

Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.