No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

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.

There is no greater prize than a quiet, peaceful mind.

Soundless echoes - no voice, Sadness doth keep thee at bay, Stagnation rises as ebb & flow, Nothing alters, Unless you choose to break away.

The judge speaks in the name of justice, ' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)

What do you call "positive"and what do you call "negative" ?Petra Hermans

To experience true life, we must continue the Christian journey the same way we began it - by faith.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

When I'm sleeping I do a lot of living.

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

I am sure there are many things better than a good cigar, but right now, I can't think of what they might be.