Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.