That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
Man’s record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman’s eyes; for God himself sits behind them.
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
The idle man stands outside of God’s plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
Life always take on the character of its motive.
No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty – a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.
God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.
The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.
It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.