Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Have the courage to act instead of react.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Man has his will, but woman has her way.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...
Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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