It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

It’s easy to sing the song, but to pray the lyrics from deep within… that’s worship!

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

I don't do office work at home.

When you truly have the courage to dream, you have the courage to act as well.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

I'm all about flannels and layers, so that's pretty much what I rock.

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.