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The diffusion of these silent teachers--books--through the whole community is to work greater effects than artillery, machinery, and legislation. Its peaceful agency is to supersede stormy revolutions. The culture which it is to spread, whilst an unspeakable good to the individual, is also to become the stability of nations. - [Books] The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life. - [Home] The great hope of society is individual character. - [Character] The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty; and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire. - [Beauty] The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought. - [Christ] The more discussion the better, if passion and personality be eschewed; and discussion, even if stormy, often winnows truth from error--a good never to be expected in an uninquiring age. - [Dispute] The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues. - [Freedom] The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ. - [Christ] The sense of duty is the fountain of human rights. In other words, the same inward principle which teaches the former bears witness to the latter. Duties and rights must stand and fall together. - [Duty] The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer. - [Sin] The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot. - [Liberty] The strongest love which the human heart has ever felt has been that for its Heavenly Parent. Was it not then constituted for this love? - [Soul] The true characteristic of genius--without despising rules, it knows when and how to break them. - [Genius] The true office of religion is to bring out the whole nature of man in harmonious activity. - [Religion] The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. It is not the judgment of courts, but the moral judgment of individuals and masses of men, which is the chief wall of defence around property and life. With the progress of society, this power of opinion is taking the place of arms. - [Opinion] They that have read about everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections,--we must chew them over again. - [Reading] True friends have no solitary joy or sorrow. - [Friends] True love is the parent of a noble humility. - [Humility] We cannot enjoy a friend here. If we are to meet it is beyond the grave. How much of our soul a friend takes with him! We half die in him. - [Friends] We have only to be patient, to pray, and to do His will, according to our present light and strength, and the growth of the soul will go on. The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sunshine; so does the heavenly principle within. - [Patience] We never know a greater character until something congenial to it has grown up within ourselves. - [Appreciation] What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on! - [Eternity] What blessedness it is to dwell amidst this transparent air, which the eye can pierce without limit, amidst these floods of pure, soft, cheering light, under this immeasureable arch of heaven, and in sight of these countless stars! An infinite universe is each moment opened to our view. And this universe is the sign and symbol of Infinite Power, Intelligence, Purity, Bliss, and Love. - [Universe] Whatever expands the affections, or enlarges the sphere of our sympathies--whatever makes us feel our relation to the universe, and all that it inherits, in time and in eternity, to the great and beneficent Cause of all, must unquestionably refine our nature, and elevate us in the scale of being. - [Culture] Whatever high station you may be placed in by fortune, remember this, that God will not estimate you by the office, but by the manner in which you fill it. - [Station] Displaying page 4 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5
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