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

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

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

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.