No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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.
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. 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.
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 Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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