“There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.”

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

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

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

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.

God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.

The past is over forget it. The future holds hope reach for it.

The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe.

Sunshine comes after rain. Rain comes after sunshine. Joy and sadness remain in an eternal back and forth. Such balance hold the world in place.

Fear’s the only obstacle that gets in the way of doing what we love. Fear holds us back from living the lives we’re made to live.

I’ve spent a lot of time holding onto things and people that brought me misery because I was afraid of the void that may be there once I let go. I know now my voids were just as illusionary as the fear and insecurities that created them.

Strong woman still need their hands held.

If my cup won’t hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn’t ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?

I would give anything to hold your hands like this again.