It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.