Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

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