Faith ought ever to be a sanguine, cheerful thing;  and perhaps in practical life we could not give a better account of faith than by saying, that it is, amidst much failure, having the heart to try again. 

Be penitent, and prayerful, but discourage looking back;  we cannot bring the past again;  reject it, and forget it.

Have patience with yourself is a direction often recurring in his writings, and a most important one it is, – because patience with ourselves is essential if we would have patience with others.

Conduct is the mouth-piece of character.   What a man is declares itself through what he does…..

A man of integrity, sincerity, and good-nature can never be concealed, for his character is wrought into his countenance.

Why will you keep caring for what the world says?   Try, oh!  try to be no longer a slave to it.   You can have little idea of the comfort of freedom from it – it is bliss! 

…remember that character means exactly what we are, while reputation is only what other people think we are.

Unless a man is accustomed to trust to his own resources, his talents will never be fully developed;  he will never gain that quickness of perception, that promptness of decision, that readiness of action that are essential to the successful conduct of affairs. 

In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves, or their powers.