As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.

What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.

Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.

Words are seeds

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.

None but a mule denies his family.

My favourite city for nightlife is Toronto, as it has such a multicultural feel, with so many different restaurants and theatres.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.

Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.