Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
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.
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
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.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too.
Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought feeling yearning or desire however low trifling or vulgar we may deem it which if it affects our real interest or happiness we may n...
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...
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
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 upo...