There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

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.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.