Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for Christ, that, and only that, you are.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.

It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.