Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.