No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.