The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
If a man has come to that point where he is so content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state of which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
The overweening self-respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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.
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school to Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
