“No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.”

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.

God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.

I beseech you to correct one fault – severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

God hasn’t brought you this far to leave you. He won’t let you get in a problem that He can’t get you out of.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

God always offers us a second chance in life.

I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.