“Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.”
“The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.”
“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.”
“Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.”
“To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.”
“No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.”
“Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.”
“Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.”
“A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.”
“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”
“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.”
“We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.”
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”
“Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”
“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”
“The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.”
“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
“That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.”
“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”
“The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.”
“Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.”
“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
“The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.”
“He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.”
“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”
“There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.”
“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.”