A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

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

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

Life itself suggests a higher good than life itself can yield.