They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

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

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.