Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Customs represent the experience of mankind.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.