I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.