Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.