“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.”

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.

That was a judicious mother who said, “I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

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

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.

One lifetime is not enough to live.

Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

At the end of the day, we can’t always achieve everything that we dream of but you do have to enjoy life in the process.