I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

A woman's health is her capital.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.