Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.