The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

The kingdom of man over nature, which cometh not with observation,--a dominion such as now is beyond his dream of God,--he shall enter without more wonder than the blind man feels who is gradually restored to perfect sight.