"To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with …"

"I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and t…"

"This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship …"

"Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life."

"Yes, what I am to be everlastingly, I am growing to be now — now in this present time so little thought of, this time…"

"Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into…"

"Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting gr…"

"A man who is not poor nor ill, nor about to be stoned to death, must not distress himself if he does not feel all thr…"

"Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event ther…"

"Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, …"