There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

There is an army of waiters in this world.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.