My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.
Good husbands make good wives.
It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that. . . and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.
I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.
Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.
Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject connected with her duty to God and her neighbor; was very truthful both in word and deed, very strict in her observance of the Sabbath-though the rest of the family were by no means particular in that respect-very diligent in her studies; respectful to superiors, and kind to inferiors and equals; and she was gentle, sweet-tempered, patient, and forgiving to a remarkable degree.
Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.
God is simple, everything else is complex
Behind every piece of bad content is an executive who asked for it.
In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.
I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.