Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.