We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

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