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The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a 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.
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
Love is the river of life in the world.
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
A church debt is the devil's salary.
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Now comes the mystery.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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