The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.

I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence....When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.

The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.