Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's….

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love..

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things..

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past..

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought..

All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake..

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit..

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightnin….

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the good and brave..

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it..

We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy….

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew..

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason..

If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving ….

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth..

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face..

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name..

"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do not doubt that many a good b….

The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved..

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one..