A life is black, whiten it as you will.

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.

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.

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

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.