It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.