“Outside I laugh; inside I never laugh,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes; “the world is too sad.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

The heart, when broken, is sometimes like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for, as such cast their fragrant scent into…

— Unknown

There was a man whom I knew who was an inveterate drinker. He had a wife and children. He thought he could stop whenever…

— D. L. Moody

Light cares cry aloud; great ones are dumb.

— Unknown

St. Paul spoke of himself as "sorrowful, yet always rejoicing." And Jesus went to the Cross for the joy that was set bef…

— Frederic Greeves

When Prometheus was assaulted by an enemy, an arrow struck a swelling which had threatened his life. The swelling was op…

— T. DeWitt Talmage