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.

Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.

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

Discover what you are.

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

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.