Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails in pain; and till you can do this, speak not to me of a better revelation than the Bible.