What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page