Ain't nothing like the real thing.
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.
The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.
Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp. . . that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!
In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.
Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God - men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God.
What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh. " Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh. "
The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.