The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

Religion is using everything for God.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.