I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into doctrines--they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.