Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Love is the river of life in this world.
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.
Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
Truthfulness is godliness.
No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!
Discover what you are.
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
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.
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.
Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
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!
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