The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

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.