Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.