You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
The beginning is the promise of the end.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.
The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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