When study becomes labor, we had better change the subject-matter as quickly as possible.
Henry S. Haskins
Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
mind faith thoughts
We have to serve ourself many years before we gain our own confidence.
self
Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
people thetimes time
If you obtain provision for yourself of spiritual abundance, don't throw the surplus at people's heads; feed it back into your own industry as capital for the production of more abundance.
people
When you think of the silly things people have said to you which have stopped you from saying the same silly things, you simply can't do justice to your gratitude.
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
places life man
Our portion of life is the whole thing for us.
life
Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.
power
Acting as your own sovereign power, grant yourself oblivion for past offences.
The art of a pedant is to divert his pupils from noticing the smallness of his puddle, and to make them attribute his apparent size to his being a really big toad.
art
The man who has a dogmatic creed has more time left for his business.
man thetimes time business
There never is any diminution of the vast majority, indifferent to what they are, whence they came, and whither they go, who rush from business to pastime, and from pastime back to business, leaving no vacancy into which the unknown might slip a little experimental greatness.
majority greatness business
Contentment has been worn as a crown by no end of sleepy heads.
theend
labor change
Compliments have lost their lure by the time a man does not have to fish for them.
man thetimes time
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