The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.
Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.
We work and that is godlike.
Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks, And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks, As if his head were as full of kinks And curious riddles as any sphinx!
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.
Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.
In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.
No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.
To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.
I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.
All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.
The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best.
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
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