There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.