I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.