What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Good humor makes all things tolerable.
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come a the result of hard fighting.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
A christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
A church debt is the devil's salary.
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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.
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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 advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget is only another way of saying, ''I will not forgive'' Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a 'but'.
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track...an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
Doctrine is nothing but the sink of truth set up and stuffed.
A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Happiness is not the end of life; character is.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well - being of mankind.
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