Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

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.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

We humans progressively exterminate every support mechanism. The earth progressively degenerates toward a form of quadriplegia, completely impotent to protect all it sustains.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

Always remember that if editors were so damned smart, they would know how to dress.

the 'public' - a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.

The body is seen by the mind, but the mind is seen by what?

Never mind the use--do it!