The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.

Just try explaining the value of statistical summaries to the widow of the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of four feet.

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

That faith alone will never forsake Christ which springs out of or is built upon a conviction of the need for Him.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

You don't know what power you have until you make choices in a hard time. -Lord Dragnys.

Fancy light from Fancy caught.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.