God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.