"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

"He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds."

"Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude."

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

"Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry."

"The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence."

"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."

"Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him."

"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance"

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

"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."

"The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven."

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

"We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents."

"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."

"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never."

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

"Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong."

"It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible."

"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause."

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others"

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

"The most dangerous people are the ignorant."

"Love is the river of life in the world."

"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."

"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game."

"That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all."

"It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful. And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us valiant."

"No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form"

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

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

"Faith is spiritualized imagination."

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

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

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

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty--how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes."

"No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself."

"The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all"

"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."

"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."

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

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

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

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality."

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."