25 quotes
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Living Words (1860)
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.
Living Words (1860)
Pride is the master-sin of the devil; and the devil is the father of lies.
Living Words (1860)
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a Home.
Humanity in the City (1854)
An aged Christian, with the snow of time on his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven.
Living Words (1860)
[N]ever does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Living Words (1860)
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.
Living Words (1860)
A great many men — some comparatively small men now — if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.
Living Words (1860)
Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
Living Words (1860)
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Living Words (1860)
Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.
Living Words (1860)
Morality is but the vestibule of religion.
Living Words (1860)
Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts; but out of the truth of things — truth of character and vision — grows true life.
Living Words (1860)
I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.
Living Words (1860)
Poetry is the utterance of truth — deep, heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
Living Words (1860)
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.
Living Words (1860)
There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.
Living Words (1860)
Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it, and tried. The actual weight and value of a man are expressed in the spiritual substance of the man. All else is dross.
Living Words (1860)
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation-robes glittering with fire; and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven.
Living Words (1860)