A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.