I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then, I have never had the opportunity of knowing, by experience, how it does make one feel. It is something to have been spared the responsibility of taking charge of the Lord's silver and gold.

Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

It is one of the most beautiful facts in this human existence of ours, that we remember the earliest and freshest part of it most vividly. Doubtless it was meant that our childhood should live on in us forever.

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?