Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!