God is the explanation of all things.

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.