The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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...
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Happiness is not the end of life character is.
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.
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.
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.