All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Votes: 0
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Votes: 0
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Votes: 0
There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave. Votes: 0
Never excuse yourself. Votes: 0
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. Votes: 0
Truthfulness is godliness. Votes: 0
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. Votes: 0
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. Votes: 0
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. Votes: 0
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. Votes: 0
A dull ax never loves grindstones. Votes: 0
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next. Votes: 0
Mirth is God's medicine. Votes: 0
All words are pegs to hang ideas on. Votes: 0
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it. Votes: 0
Clothes and manners do not make the man but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance Votes: 0
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life. Votes: 0
Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more. Votes: 0
Now comes the mystery! (last words) Votes: 0
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself Votes: 0
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. Votes: 0
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. Votes: 0
A babe is a mother's anchor. Votes: 0
A bird in a cage is not half a bird. Votes: 0
A church debt is the devil's salary. Votes: 0
A man that is afraid is never a man. Votes: 0
A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty. Votes: 0
Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are. Votes: 0
Discover what you are. Votes: 0
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause. Votes: 0
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. Votes: 0
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time. Votes: 0
Experience is the mother of custom. Votes: 0
Faith is spiritualized imagination. Votes: 0
God's glory is His goodness. Votes: 0
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were. Votes: 0
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another. Votes: 0
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health. Votes: 0
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind. Votes: 0
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man. Votes: 0
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. Votes: 0
Ignorance is the womb of monsters. Votes: 0
It takes a man to make a devil. Votes: 0
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. Votes: 0
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people. Votes: 0
Love is more just than justice. Votes: 0
Love is the wine of existence. Votes: 0
Love is the world's river of life Votes: 0
Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it. Votes: 0
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy. Votes: 0
Men can make an idol of the Bible. Votes: 0
Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality. Votes: 0
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you. Votes: 0
No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day. Votes: 0
No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant. Votes: 0
Now comes the mystery. Votes: 0
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. Votes: 0
Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God. Votes: 0
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion. Votes: 0
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun. Votes: 0
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Votes: 0
Sorrow makes men sincere. Votes: 0
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps. Votes: 0
Storms purify the atmosphere. Votes: 0
The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it. Votes: 0
The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak. Votes: 0
The dog is the god of frolic. Votes: 0
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God. Votes: 0
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences. Votes: 0
The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them. Votes: 0
The things that hurt us teach us. Votes: 0
The tree is but a huge boquet. Votes: 0
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub. Votes: 0
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life. Votes: 0
There are joys which long to be ours Votes: 0
There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer. Votes: 0
True obedience is true freedom. Votes: 0
Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead. Votes: 0
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate. Votes: 0
When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community. Votes: 0
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted. Votes: 0