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

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

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.

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.

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.