It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

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.

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.