Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.