Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

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

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.