Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

Love is the world's river of life

The dog is the god of frolic.

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.