Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.
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.
One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Pride slays thanksgiving … A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won’t
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.”Henry Ward Beecher
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them – the whole leaf and root tribe.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it and that is the grave.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible.
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road.
Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.
“I can forgive but I cannot forget” is only another way of saying “I will not forgive.” Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and as the magnet finds the iron so it will find in every hour some heavenly blessings!
The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies but the thankful heart… will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is not according to what he has.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track … an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.
Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.
A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it’s done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a sad expression some are pensive and diffident others again are plain honest and upright.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won’t.
No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
A door that seems to stand open must be a man’s size or it is not the door that Providence means for him.
Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul’s signal for rallying.
There is no friendship no love like that of the parent for the child.
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree … but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement… that requires a heroism which is transcendent.
Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies but the thankful heart… will find in every hour some heavenly blessings.
The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a ‘but’.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man’s size or it is not the door that providence means for him.
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won’t.
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother’s bosom, but it is always on her heart.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
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.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.