The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.