Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Work first, and then rest.

God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.