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.

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.