I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.