God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Do the best you can where you are, and when that is accomplished, God will open a door for you, and a voice will call "Come up hither into a higher sphere

[That for so many work is not a conscious choice but something that] happens ... work is not the curse, drudgery is.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.