Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.