Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others.

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. The conditions are secondary. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.