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

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

God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

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

If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

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

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.