A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.