Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Everything is possible through complete devotion to the Lord.

The rain cometh down and the snow from heaven and retumeth not thither but watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater.

When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse.

When you love somebody, it's like in a couple - you want to create something. Sometimes, it's a baby.

Everyone is the same for the first two minutes, everyone has a chance to win, but after that you start to seperate physically and mentally.

And the '99 finals at the French - if I had won that one easily, no one would have talked about it.

Understand life's mysteries, - as mysteries to be lived.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.

There's a snake hidden in the grass.