If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

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

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

The dog is the god of frolic.

Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.