See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

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

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.