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

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.