As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair.

I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.