Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.