No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical

Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.

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.