Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

Now comes the mystery.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

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.

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.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

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

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

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

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.

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.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but.

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

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

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

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.