Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.

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

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.