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.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

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

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.