 Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. Topics: Death |
| Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. |
| To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. |
| 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. |
| Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. |
| A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. |
| Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. |
| Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. |
| To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. |
| The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. |
| The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. |
| Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. |
| Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. |
| 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. Topics: Love Is |
| We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. |
| The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance. |
| The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. |
| I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. |
| To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. |
