I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.

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

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

Mirth is God's medicine.

We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.