Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).