Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature in the natural way, need no pictures nor gallereies. Spring is their designer, and the whole year their artist.