Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

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

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

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.