Growth is the only evidence of life.

With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event.

You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.