It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

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!