The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

Christ certainly did come to destroy the law and the prophets.

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the seas may see the shining, and learn their way.

The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.