"Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms a"

"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."

"The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands"

"“By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established the Church, encircled the globe with her ships, and made her books and her papers to be as blades of grass and as leave of the Summer for number. But in the South, labor, a badge of shame, is the father of misery. The slave labors, but with no cheer—it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens’ trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.”"

"A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

"True obedience is true freedom."

"Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men."

"''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''"

"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."

"Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends."

"A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man."

"Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more."

"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends."

"Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks."

"We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -"

"The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself."

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road."

"To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind"

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope."

"He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds."

"Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude."

"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good"

"Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry."

"The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence."

"Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry."

"Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him."

"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance"

"God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how."

"A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow."

"The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven."

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

"We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents."

"There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child."

"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never."

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

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

"Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong."

"It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible."

"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause."

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others"

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

"The most dangerous people are the ignorant."

"Love is the river of life in the world."

"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."