You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.