There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

God’s Word is the tool the Holy Spirit uses to change our worldly thinking to heavenly thinking.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

I would rather die standing than live kneeling

It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

If you want to be the best salesperson, first you must be the best person.

In some seasons, Jesus asks us, “Will you still love Me when things are not happening the way that you thought they would happen?

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.