The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
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.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
The dog is the god of frolic.
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.