Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

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.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.