Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

God is everywhere! the God who framed

Mankind to be one, mighty family,

Himself our Father, and the world our home.

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.