This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

We were just looking at maps...

Only Marxists, " Dr. Iggy concluded, opening the door to usher Joe into the chapel room, "stillbelieve in an objective history. Marxists and a few disciples of Ayn Rand.

They say God appeared in history and used it for his purposes, but if that was so he had no pity for men.

The only person truly capable of keeping me from fulfilling my dream is me.

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.