Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.

Eternity will not be long enough to learn all he is, or to praise him for all he has done, but then, that matters not; for we shall be always with him, and we desire nothing more.

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.