Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.