Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

The things that hurt us teach us.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.