If you don't attempt things, you don't attract God.
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
I ask you, if a mad man came in and abducted your child and I said to you I can bring your child homedoes it matter how I bring them home?
I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.
Everybody exaggerates a little bit.
cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?