Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.

It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.