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.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.

This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.

To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.