The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.