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

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Love is the wine of existence.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.