Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

Vision is capturing God's assignment

Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!

The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.

As a rule I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

I do not ask for my rights. I have no rights. I have only wrongs.

God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.

How do you tell a child that she was born to be hurt?

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.