Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.