What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

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.

It is a law of our humanity, that man must know both good and evil; he must know good through evil. There never was a principle but what triumphed through much evil; no man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

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

That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.