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.

Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.

Love is the wine of existence.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.