The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
Some men have only one book in them, others a library.
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
[On her father:]. . . in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.
For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world. . . we got into our souls a sense of beauty.
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight. . . Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.