No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

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

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

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.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

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