We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

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

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.