When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.