Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.