The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny
True religion extends alike to the intellect and the heart. Intellect is in vain if it lead not to emotion, and emotion is vain if not enlightened by intellect; and both are vain if not guided by truth and leading to duty.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.
Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.
Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.
We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.
Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.
Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.
Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin.
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.
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