Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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.
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.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
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.
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.
There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.
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.
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Love is the river of life in the world.
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.