We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.