It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.