Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.
Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.
Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.
Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.