There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.