We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
Love is the wine of existence.
A man that is afraid is never a man.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.