Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

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

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.