Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence, the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked, leadership is defined by results not attributes.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Of all the worldly passions lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

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