Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.