| Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. |
| The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. |
| Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. |
| Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. |
| A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road. |
| Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins. |
| A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. |
| It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. |
| Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. |
| All words are pegs to hang ideas on. |
| Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. |
| To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. |
| 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. |
| We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts. |
| It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. |
| Repentance is another name for aspiration. |
| Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. |
| Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. |
| The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic. |
| Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. |
| I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. |
| Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things. |
| If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. |
| Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. |
| We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. |
| The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. |
| Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart. |
| What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. |
| It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. |
| Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. |
| 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. |
| You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door. |
| Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore |
| Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. |
| The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but. |
