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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.
Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.
Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.
Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.
Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.
Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.
God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.