One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth they, and they only.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.
Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet? Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure? Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet- Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.
A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools.
All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.
Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
When God shuts a door, He opens a window.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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