Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.

To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!