Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.