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

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

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

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.