God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.