Sanity is very rare every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.
Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.
A great man stands on God. A small man stands on a great man.
The meaning of good and bad of better and worse is simply helping or hurting.
No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too.
For everything you have missed you have gained something else.
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.
It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it is at fr...
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
The never-ending task of self improvement.
Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do wha...
Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.