It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
The worst thing in this world,
next to anarchy, is government
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
"A man's true state of power and
riches is to be in himself."
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm
which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
"Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm
which is the real and endless home of the heart."
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odour to the nostrils.
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
~Alan Alda
The rickshaw was invented by the Reverend Jonathan Scobie, an American Baptist minister living in Yokohama, Japan, built the first model in 1869 in order to transport his invalid wife. Today it remains a common mode of transportation in the Orient.
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
"Hold yourself responsible to a higher standard than anybody else expects of
you; never excuse yourself."
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
"No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, then enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated of it."
