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

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

The beginning is the promise of the end.