Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher
Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.
Happiness is not the end of life character is.
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile up...
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.
A church debt is the devil's salary.
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game...
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.