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...
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.