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

Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.