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

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

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

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

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

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.