We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God's organic will, which rules and moulds this universe.

Human improvement is from within outward.