Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Now comes the mystery.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
