Tools were made and born were hands, Every farmer understands.
Might, could, would-they are contemptible auxiliaries.
Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to "image forth."
Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment.
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.
There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Shoemaker, stick to your last.
Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.
If you strike a thorn or rose, Keep a-goin! If it hails or if it snows, Keep a-goin! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin'. Keep a-goin!
We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
The worst of faces still is human.
It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies.
Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.