Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Winter is the night of vegetation.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.