To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Love is the river of life in this world.
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.
Truthfulness is godliness.
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!
The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.
Discover what you are.
Love is the wine of existence.
Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer.
We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.
We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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