Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.