But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

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.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.