The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
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...
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...
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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.
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too.
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.
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation t...