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Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.