Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to bear buffeting and scorn; how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for the whole world that groans and travails in pain; and till you can do this, speak not to me of a better revelation than the Bible.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.