Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

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

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

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.

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.