Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.