Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Nature is the chart of God, mapping out all His attributes.

Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.

Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.