He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.