We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.

It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.

The music of the Gospel leads us home.

Kind words are the music of the world.