To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may conclude that by the law of progress it is more likely to be a correct statement than that which has been repeated for ages by the lips of tradition.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.