“Sorrow makes men sincere.”

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

True obedience is true freedom.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.

I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.

We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.