Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.