Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee?

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.