An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
Home is the seminary of all other institutions.
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.
Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.
Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.
There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.
A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves.
It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.
Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.
We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.
A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.
I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.
The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.
The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.
A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily procession of love and duty.
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