Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

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.'