To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Let every man come to God in his own way.
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
You may say, “I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball.” Providence won’t. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.
The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.
There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.