A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.