“There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.”

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

School typically doesn’t prepare young people for real life – unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that’s why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

The one who obey’s God’s instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow.

As in Geometry, the most natural way of beginning is from a Mathematical point; so is the same method in Observations and Natural history the most genuine, simple, and instructive.

People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.