A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John; it is the Gospel according to William; it is the Gospel according to Mary; it is the Gospel according to Henry and James; it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.