The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.