I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.