If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.