The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.