They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

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.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.