Heaven Does Not Make Holiness,

Wherever Souls Are Being Tried And Ripened, In Whatever Commonplace And Homely Way, There God Is Hewing Out The Pillars For His Temple.

Devotion Is Like The Candle Which Michael Angelo Used To Take In His Pasteboard Cap, So As Not To Throw His Shadow Upon The Work In Which He Was Engaged.

There Are Two Ways Of Defending A Castle; One By Shutting Yourself Up In It, And Guarding Every Loop-hole; The Other By Making It An Open Centre Of Operations From Which All The Surrounding Country May Be Subdued. Is Not The Last The Truest Safety?

If We Could Sweep Intemperance Out Of The Country, There Would Be Hardly Poverty Enough Left To

Character May Be Manifested In The Great Moments, But It Is Made In The Small Ones.