We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

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.

To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.

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

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.