It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
Wants keep pace with wealth always.
There are no twin souls in God's universe.
There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you -- the dulness, and the earthliness, and the brutishness of men? Fret not. Go forward into the realm which stretches before you; climb the highest mountain you can reach, and plant a cross there. The nations will come up to it some day. Work for immortality if you will; then wait for it. If your own age fail to recognize you, a coming age will not.
Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
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.
Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.
Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.
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.
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified.
Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.
We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.
A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.
The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.
The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.
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