Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. |
Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for |
On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans; on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, free men. |
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. |
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments. |
Parents who are always giving their children nothing but the best usually wind up with nothing but the worst |
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. |
Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all |
Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. |
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. |
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth. |
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. |
Repentance is another name for aspiration |
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. |
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. |