Your little child is the only true democrat.

There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

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.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.