To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

The world is God's workshop for making men in.