Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.