It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?