There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in sol...
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the...
Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs' home: 'I was shagging carts one afternoon when I saw this silve...
How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.
