It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

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

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.