Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

Love is the essence of God.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

The house praises the carpenter.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.