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.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.