The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.

Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.