The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

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.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

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.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

The dog is the god of frolic.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.