It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

God's highest gifts--talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power--they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost.

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

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.

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.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

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