Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.

Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.