When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. read more

• Thought Trouble Necessary Connection Discouragement Germ Its Own Different from Arthritis Stiff Joint

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. read more

• Thought Teachers Change Lives Right Mix Chalk Challenges

Faith is not desire. Faith is will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas will is a force. Will changes the space around us. read more

• Thought Faith Desire Desires Things Need Satisfied Whereas Force Changes Space Around Us

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there. read more

• Thought Perfection Cannot Achieved Hard Stop

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. read more

• Thought Think Twice Before Speak Words Influence Plant Seed Either Success Failure Mind Another

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. read more

• Thought Beautiful Type Ugly Thousand

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. read more

• Thought Short Life Still Shorter by Careless Waste Time

Morality is truth in full bloom. read more

• Thought Morality Truth Full Bloom

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. read more

• Thought Fashions Done More Harm Revolutions

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. read more

• Thought Common Sense Spite Result Education