When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.

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