Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.

A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

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.