When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation it sometimes floats forth and opens.

Character is power it makes friends draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth honor and happiness.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment and at last despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door and what we do with our lives after we do is up to us.

The propensity to truck barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men and to be found in no other race of animals.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.