Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.