If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.