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

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.