The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.