Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts; but out of the truth of things — truth of character and vision — grows true life. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time on his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven.