The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Love is the world's river of life

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.