The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.
Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman.
Life is a romantic business but you have to make the romance.
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
This is a court of law young man not a court of justice.
The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.
Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all but a man of more than average moral instincts who if he knows anything kno...
Man has his will - but woman has her way.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Life is a great bundle of little things.
Faith as an intellectual state is self-reliance.
Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.
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