Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

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.