There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

Mirth is God's medicine.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.