Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!