Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!