It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
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.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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!
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
