Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.