Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

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.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.