Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

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.

The temptation is not here, where you are reading about it or praying about it. It is down in your shop, among bales and boxes, ten-penny nails, and sand-paper.

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

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.