If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Living in peace has transformative power!

Moral writing is boring.

Even if you feel wronged, respond right.

Survival depends on denial, and death comes swiftly to those who forsake it.

Just the sensation of having one man touching her and the other watching made her shiver in awareness.

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.

I don't spend my life getting dressed! I have to put clothes on during the day; I don't get dressed up at all when I'm working. I'll wear jeans, or something very simple.

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher.

So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care.

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.