“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

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. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

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

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

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

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

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

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.

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

Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Education is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

If you spend more and more money toward stuff, you lose focus on what matters most and lessen our ability to pursue it.  

The ability to say no is closely linked to self-confidence.

No matter how attractive a person’s ability is, you have to see their reality.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Women have the ability to do whatever they want in life and are not less than a man.

Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.