Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Mirth is God's medicine.