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.

This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.