Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

Now comes the mystery.

There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us