"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures"
"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things"
"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles"
"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"
"Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it"
"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends"
"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation"
"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next"
"A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better"
"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never"
"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice"
"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"
"Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child"
"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"
"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable"
"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred"
"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government"
"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"
"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low"
"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top"
"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy"
"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has"
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship"
"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"
"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"
"Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty"
"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast"
"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul"
"God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses"
"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality"
"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house"
"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good"
