Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving; and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.