“If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road”

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

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

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.

Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest.

A place where our stories are rewritten, and six degrees of separation no longer troubles us.

I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.

Romeo and Juliet have nothing on this story, all the places we will go, or down in drumroll glory.

Use your fear, it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.

When you come to religion, you come to a place. When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.