God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

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 one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.