How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.