The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.