The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

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.

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

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

My vocation to preach on paper.