We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.
Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.
Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.