Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

I know you want me, Jenner, " Bria said in a breathy tone. "Why don't you do something about it?

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

If you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it

The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

If you hate something, you hate it, and if you like something or somebody, you like it, but tell the truth. And most celebrities have that thin veneer that they will not break for you.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.