The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.