Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us