He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart.