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.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

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.

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.

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

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