"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."

"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."

"A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means for him."

"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."

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

"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?"

"Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright."

"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."

"What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

"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."

"It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it."

"To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe."

"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."

"A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind."

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

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

"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."

"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."

"Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it."

"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

"It is not what a man gets, But what a man is,That he should think of.He should first think of his character,And then of his condition.He that has character need have no fear of his condition.Character will draw condition after it."