The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.