"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"Put out the light."

"Spend and be spent."

"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"Do what you can with what you have where you are."

"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."

"Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner."

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."

"The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures."

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."