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

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

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

Love is the river of life in this world.