As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet with which they load their tables; and there can be no doubt that the general health of the nation would be increased by a change in our customs in this respect.

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.