A mind grows by what it feeds on.

In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

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.

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.