We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

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

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

For right is right, since God is God.

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 there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation.