Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.