The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.

- David Swing

Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

- David Swing

The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nu…

- David Swing

The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he should acqui…

- David Swing

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

- David Swing

As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms…

- David Swing

It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All that can here be…

- David Swing