Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.