Don't wait to plant a flower for your neighbor until it has to blossom beside his tomb-stone.
Growling at the weather may give the tongue plenty of exercise, but it never buys meat and potatoes or swells the bank account.
Be confident. No coward heart ever won an important battle, and the battle-field of life is the one that demands the fullest courage.
Little Sermons.
Be thankful as long as there is a buttered side to your bread; and when the butter runs out, thank God for the bread!
Charity covers the sins all right, but many a poor sinner gets mighty short of blankets in the cold winter times of folly.
One heart of love and two glad lips of song have lifted many a mediocre soul up the slopes of happiness to the bright, eternal morning.