Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.