Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

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.

He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.

You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes.

We owe our strengths & weaknesses to constellations and genes - winning over our imbibed weaknesses result into maturity.

She missed his nothing. It had felt like something.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge, may appraise them conveniently.