A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

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

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.

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.