Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

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.

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

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

Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.