Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.