There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

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

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.