Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.