We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.

Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty. It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.