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.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.