Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

Home is the seminary of all other institutions.

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

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

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.