Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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