Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

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

The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.