Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in reading is formed in the right direction or in the wrong one while he is under the influence of his parents; and they are directly responsible for the shaping and cultivating of that taste.

Henry Clay Trumbull's Popular Quotes

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.

- Henry Clay Trumbull

In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the …

- Henry Clay Trumbull

It has been said that the essence of teaching is causing another to know. It may similarly be said that the essence of training is causing another to…

- Henry Clay Trumbull

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the…

- Henry Clay Trumbull

It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.

- Henry Clay Trumbull

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

- Henry Clay Trumbull

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

- Henry Clay Trumbull

A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

- Henry Clay Trumbull

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

- Henry Clay Trumbull