It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.
We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.
There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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