There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.