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

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

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.

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

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

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.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.