There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.

The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, which is the sweet savor before God. The defeat of the true-hearted is victory.

By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.