Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

The bravest are the tenderest.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.