Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

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.

The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.

Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

I kind of wish they’d shut up,” Jack said. “Dude, true dat,” Lend answered. Jack nodded solemnly. “For serious.

I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.

It only takes a little innovation.

Whatever my job description consists of, becomes my job. Maybe it's just the way I tackle work, in general.