Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
Sorrow makes men sincere.
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