Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death.

Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.