No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

Many make the household but only one the home.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.