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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

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.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.

There are many people who think that Sunday is a sponge to wipe out all the sins of the week.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Now comes the mystery.

A church debt is the devil's salary.