Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
A man that is afraid is never a man.
God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
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 law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week
Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.
People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
Let every man come to God in his own way.
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
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