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

Time and pains will do anything.

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.

Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.

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.

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

God's highest gifts--talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power--they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost.