The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

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.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.