Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.