It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

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

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

Impatience never commanded success.