God never made anything else so beautiful as man.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.