A man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
The dog is the god of frolic.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.