Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.