"Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all"

"I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything."

"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

"We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves."

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next"

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

"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."

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."

"In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands"

"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

"It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices"

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"There never was a person that did anything worth doing who did not really receive more than he gave"

"Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law"

"A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?"

"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."

"The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day."

"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."

"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

"It is not the going out of the port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."

"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

"There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure"

"To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself."

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."

"Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent."

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."

"The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities"

"Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky"

"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way."

"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."

"We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering"

"Suffering is part of the divine idea."

"A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows."

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself."

"Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth."

"When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear."

"A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity."

"Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting."

"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."

"Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time."

"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."

"See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also."

"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

"It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction."

"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history"

"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."