There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

I look through the grave into heaven.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

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

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.