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

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.