Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

No pressure, no diamonds.