Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
It is part and parcel of every man’s life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary impressions from them. Pleasure and inspiration first; analysis, afterward.
God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance on the approach of danger. It is the soul’s signal for rallying.
Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed-it has educated a race of men that are men.
Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.