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“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
“Now comes the mystery! (last words)”
“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”
“Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.”
“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.”
“God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.”
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
“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 dog is the god of frolic.”
“It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
“The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.”
“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”
“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.”
“It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.”
“You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.”
“Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.”
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.”
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”