We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
Education is only like good culture, – it changes the size, but not the sort.
It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.
Flowers are sent to do God’s work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.
There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.
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 most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.
As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.