The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.