Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.