Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.

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

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.