The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

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.

Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.

We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God.

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

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