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.

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

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!

Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

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