What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

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

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.