There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.