God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is fr...
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defe...
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which i...
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Love is the river of life in the world.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
"I can forgive but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against o...
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.