Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

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.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

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.