I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.