The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

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

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

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

Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.