Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.