Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.