There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize them as wisdom which has passed across your own mind. You feel that they are your own thoughts come back to you.

Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.

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

I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.

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

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.