No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.

We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower, and number the bones of every bird; but unless faith leads us to a deeper understanding, a more reverent comprehension of the significance of the universe, God can be no more pleased with our knowledge than the painter is pleased with the fly which touches his picture with its feelers, and sips the varnish from the surface, and dies without dreaming of the meaning, thought, feeling, embodied in the colors.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.