One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.