Faith is spiritualized imagination.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Blessed are the happiness makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.