Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Our body is like a cage & heart is the bird in it " during Paryer the bird(heart) must not be wandering here & there.

But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

Calvin [Trillin] was much more of a mover and a shaker. That's all I'm saying. I was a "weenie." That was another term back then.

If everything goes right then I can get going.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

It takes quite a while for the living to catch up with the believing, but of course it can. As we live up to the highest light we have, more light is given.