He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.

That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

What we are, and where we are, is God's providential arrange ment — God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face, and see what can be made out of them.

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

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