A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

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

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.