Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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...
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.
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 gre...
The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.
Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible.
A church debt is the devil's salary.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.