It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.