Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

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