Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
From Henry Ward Beecher
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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