Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

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

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.