It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.