The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.
A man's best friends are his ten fingers.
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.
Atheism can never be an institution ... it can never be more than a destitution.
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.