In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!