We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough.

When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone, they felt as if it had never been; when it returned, they felt as if it had never gone.

What God may hereafter require of you, you must not give yourself the least trouble about. Everything He gives you to do, you must do as well as ever you can, and that is the best possible preparation for what He may want you to do next. If people would but do what they have to do, they would always find themselves ready for what came next.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

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.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.