Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.