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

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

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.

Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen.

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

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?