Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.