Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Anger

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Appearance

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

Books and Reading

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Charity

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

Culture

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Death and Dying

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Difficulties

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Enthusiasm

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

Fear

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

Forgiveness

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

Friends and Friendship

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

Gratitude

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

Heaven

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

Ideas

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. -

Influence

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

Laughter

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

Medicine

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Opinions

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

Perseverance

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

Principles

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

Riches

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

Self-expression

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Success

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Time and Time Management

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.

Words

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Worth

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