The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

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

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.