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

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

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.

Let us not fear that the issues of natural science shall be scepticism or anarchy. Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which lies nearest the Throne.

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.