Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.
Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.
I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withheld the request of his lips.
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.
Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.