It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession.