Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.