The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

After so many years, we kept our nearness, by paying with our distance.

Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.

You really should stay away from me.

The fans, and now most of the crowd, are interested in this event.

But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.