The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

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

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.