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

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.

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.

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.

But, in fact, discipline is the pathway to freedom.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

Although discipline demands control and asceticism, it actually results in freedom. When you have the discipline to get up early, you are rewarded with more free time.

There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline.

Discipline equals freedom.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.