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.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.