Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.