No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.

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.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

Subject is known by what she sees.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

...you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

What I know how to do is nurture and help people discover the best opportunities.

I have no fear of death. We all die. I consider my remaining days to be like money in the bank. When it is all gone, I will be repossessed.