Famous quotes by Clergymans

"Men's best successes come after their disappointments"

"Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours"

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him"

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long"

"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown"

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom"

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures"

"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself"

"Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it"

"War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men"

"Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state"

"The atheist has no hope"

"Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well"

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies"

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich"

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven"

"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles"

"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's"

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning"

"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself"

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart"

"No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions"

"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage"

"If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere"

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages"

"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance"

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven"

"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind"

"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves"

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine"