Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is, "I will see you in the vestry after service

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing