One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
It should be held as an eternal truth, that what is morally wrong can never be politically right.
If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.
Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.
Going to the opera like getting drunk is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.