Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.

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.

This world is a business venture and only those that mean business reap bountifully from it.

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

Truth has a certain sound to it. Your spirit will hear it clearly and leap inside of you and you will feel hope

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

you give everyone the benefit of the doubt. they don't always deserve it.

the fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities.

The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.

And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!

I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.