The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

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.

None of our achievement matters, than how we have lived our lives.

In reality, I am not dependent, butSo as to keep dignity of the GenerousI have resorted to beggary.

Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.

A book is a machine to think with.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

No, it's not love, but it's not bad.

Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.

There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.