Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

Let every man come to God in his own way.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.