Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

Death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.