A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.