In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.