Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
The great hope of society is in individual character.
The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
The world is governed by opinion.
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes an...
Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a state.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account.
a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much out of little, breathes power into weak instruments, disarms difficulties, and even turns them into as...
The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.