"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."

"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."

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

"The dog is the god of frolic."

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

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

"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."

"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."

"I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent."

"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."

"The most dangerous people are the ignorant."

"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."

"Theology is a science of mind applied to God."

"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

"Love is the river of life in the world."

"The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself."

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."

"The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic."

"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

"The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance."

"Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry."

"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."

"Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God."

"Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."

"The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones."

"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

"It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction."

"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk."

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich."

"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."

"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

"Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more."

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right."

"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."