Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship.

The things that hurt us teach us.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.