Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

A babe is a mother's anchor.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.