When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.