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

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.