If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Religion is using everything for God.