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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.
The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.
The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.
We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.
Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.