The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.