No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?

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

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.

The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

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