Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.