Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.