There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; an life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides us from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.