Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

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

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.