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

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.