A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Control what you can control.

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.

Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.

Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?

My next guest [ for party with five favorite fictional characters] would be Scarlett from Gone With The Wind. I mean, come on, I have to know if she ever got Rhett back.

We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.

I just have fun doing what I do. If it looks like a good time, I'm up for it!