Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Ideals are the world's masters.

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.

A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.