It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

I have great faith in a seed.