High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.