Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.