To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
Attitudes are more important than facts.
The principle part of faith is patience.
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
