Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.