A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.

On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

I think that the Almighty gave springtime to a tired world so that its peoples might know rest. I think that He gave it to a troubled world so that the world's inhabitants might find peace. I think He gave it to a discouraged world so that hope and faith might be reborn!

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.