The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?

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

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

The soul, cramped among the petty vexations of Earth, needs to keep its windows constantly open to the invigorating air of large and free ideas: and what thought is so grand as that of an ever-present God, in whom all that is vital in humanity breathes and grows?