Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.