There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.