Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.