The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly ….

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else rema….

No hell will frighten men away from sin; no dread of prospective misery; only goodness can cast hell out of any man, and set up the kingdom of heaven….

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human he….

Although music appeals simply to the emotions, and represents no definite images in itself, we are justified in using any language which may serve to….

Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can fee….

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself..

The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly r….

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted f….

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt..

Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of it….

Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in, and the more we live and know of our own souls and of spiritual experience generally, the more….

Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings..

After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, a….

Personality is that which is most intimate to me—that by which I must act out my life. It is that by which I belong to man, that by which I amable to….

Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no dou….

All good government must begin at home..

No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states..

Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your superfluitie….

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus ….

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy..