That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
Sorrow makes men sincere.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a 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.
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
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