Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road.
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the grea...
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is not according to what he has.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means for him.
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against...