Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.

Moonlight is sculpture.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.