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

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.