If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.