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.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

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.

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.