Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.

Whatever attracts the mind from God, whatever draws the affections away from Christ, is an enemy to the soul.

A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and in her manners shows that she understands that a true woman is characterized by moral worth.

Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health.

Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.

The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.

I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever.

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to have consequential thoughts is to start putting them down.

The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.