Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.