"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others"
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown"
"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot"
"A church debt is the devil's salary"
"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences"
"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves"
"It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich"
"I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent"
"Books are not men and yet they stay alive"
"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right"
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven"
"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself"
"You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are"
"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"
"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things"
"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles"
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith"
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road"
"Faith is spiritualized imagination"
"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine"
"The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes"
"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life"
"Now comes the mystery"
"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"
"God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas"
"Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into"
"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own"
"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness"
"God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how"
"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life"
"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away"
"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves"
"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient"
"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one"
"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"
