The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

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.

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!

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.