His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.