Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.