I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.