Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.