Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.
What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.
Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
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