Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.