Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.