Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

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

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.