To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty.

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

Remember that vision on the Mount of Transfiguration; and let it be ours, even in the glare of earthly joys and brightnesses, to lift up our eyes, like those wondering three, and see no man any more, save Jesus only.

You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

All that this world knows of living lies in giving - and more giving; He that keeps, be sure he loses -Friendship grows by what it uses.

The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.