“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”
Music“Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.”
Best“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”
Music“Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.”
Society“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.”
God“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
Love“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
Friendship“The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.”
History“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”
Inspirational“We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.”
God“We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
God“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.”
Success“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”
Mom“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”
Good“Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.”
Marriage“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
Inspirational“Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”
Thanksgiving“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”
Sad“All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.”
Men“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.”
God“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.”
God“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
Men