"We are never, never so much in..." - Quote by Charles Spurgeon

“Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.”

“Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!”

“To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

“A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.”

“A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.”

“Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.”

“I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.”

“When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.”

“It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.”