God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.

The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

There are no twin souls in God's universe.

Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.