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

“There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.”

“Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

“No man is more cheated than the selfish man.”

“‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.”

“No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.”

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”