The old echoes are long in dying.

Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.

It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.