He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.

In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.

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

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.