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

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

A babe is a mother's anchor.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Love is the river of life in this world.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.