For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

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.

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.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.

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