In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.