God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.

The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?