It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
The gates are open on the road
That leads to beauty and to God.
-Charles Sorley
When we are collecting books,
we are collecting happiness.
-Vincent Starrett
Once to every man and nation
comes the moment to decide.
-James Russell Lowell
It is not what he has, nor even
what he does, which directly effects
the worth of a man; but what he is.
-Henri-Frederic Amiel
Heaven knows we may never be ashamed
of our tears, for they are the rain
upon the blinding dust of earth,
overlying our hard hearts.
-Charles Dickens
The great essentials in life are
something to do, something to love,
something to hope for.
-Thomas Chalmers
One man with courage makes a majority.
-Andrew Jackson
Death is the golden key that
opens the palace of eternity.
There is always another chance...
This thing that we call "failure"
is not falling down, but staying down.
-Mary Pickford
Faith is to believe what we do not see,
and the reward of this faith is to see
what we believe.
Art thou lonely, O my brother?
Share thy little with another!
Stretch a hand to one unfriended,
And thy loneliness is ended.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom
which springs from the soul.
-Ballou
Happiness is a perfume you cannot
pour on others without getting a few
drops on yourself.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant,
who finds peace in his home.
-Goethe
Hope is like the sun, which, as we
journey toward it, casts the shadow
of our burden behind us.
Life is measured not by accumulation
but by outlay; not by how much saved,
but by how much expended; not by distance
traveled, but by the road taken.
When time, which steals our years away,
Shall steal our pleasures to;
The memory of the past will stay
and half our joys renew.
The greatest achievement of the human
spirit is to live up to ones opportunities
and make the most of ones resources.
Vauvenargues
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
-Jean J. Rousseau
Gold is good in it's place, but living,
brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
-Abraham Lincoln
The study of Gods' word for the purpose
of discovering Gods' will is the secret
discipline which has formed the greatest
characters.
-J.W. Alexander
Amid my list of blessings infinite,
Stands this the foremost, "That my
heart has bled."
-Edward Young
Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
-Henry David Thoreau
You can never have a greater or less
domination than that over yourself.
-Leonardo Da Vinci