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

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.