A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

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

So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.