Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.