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

Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.

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

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Christ's miracles were vivid manifestations to the senses that He is the Saviour of the body--and now as then the issues of life and death are in His hands--that our daily existence is a perpetual miracle. The extraordinary was simply a manifestation of God's power in the ordinary.

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

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.