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.

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

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.