The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial flowers--to the daily life of others.

Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.