Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.