As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

Man was sent into the world to be a growing and exhaustless force. The world was spread out around him to be seized and conquered. Realms of infinite truth burst open above him, inviting him to tread those shining coasts along which Newton dropped his plummet, and Herschel sailed,--a Columbus of the skies.

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

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