Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

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.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.