What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Generosity is the flower of justice.

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.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.