October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.