Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

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