It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .