"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

"There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books."

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."

"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas."

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one."

"A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity."

"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away."

"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad."

"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

"None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn."

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life."

"A church debt is the devil's salary."

"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

"If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost."

"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient."

"Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying."

"The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!"

"Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought feeling yearning or desire however low trifling or vulgar we may deem it which if it affects our real interest or happiness we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him though it has wearied the man."

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

"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 is transcendent."

"I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything."

"If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere."

"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."

"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."

"It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement."

"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."

"One best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

"The dog is the god of frolic."

"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."

"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."

"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

"Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."

"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."