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Let every man come to God in his own way.
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
No matter who reigns, the merchant reigns.
There is an army of waiters in this world.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
Customs represent the experience of mankind.
The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.
Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
The world is God's workshop for making men in.
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.
God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.
God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.
The truest self-respect is not to think of self.
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).
Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.
Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.