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

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.