Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.