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.

The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

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

Do not judge from mere appearances.