Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.