As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.

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

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.