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

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

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.