The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain (as long as it was done out of love, not personal glory)

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

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

It is not in understanding a set of doctrines; not in outward comprehension of the "scheme of salvation," that rest and peace are to be found, but in taking up, in all lowliness and meekness, the yoke of the Lord Jesus Christ.