“The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.”

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

And perhaps the greatest paradox of all is how we stand here, fully wounded yet never more alive.

You will go one on one with the Great One!

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.