To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.