Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'.
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.
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.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
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.
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 dog is the god of frolic.
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 mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
