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

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

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

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