Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.