We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.