Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into doctrines--they pass into consolations; but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

Most people would succeed above themselves.

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.