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

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.