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

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

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

• Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

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

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

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

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

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

• All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

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

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

• 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.

• We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

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

• Repentance is another name for aspiration.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• 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

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

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