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.

All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,--as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

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

Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.