Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son’s education, than leave it him in your will.
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don’t quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil – widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
One can begin so many things with a new person! – even begin to be a better man.
It’s a father’s duty to give his sons a fine chance.
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was – he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past – sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.