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.

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

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.

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

Most people would succeed above themselves.

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.

The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.