Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.