Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

What can this world offer comparable with that insight into spiritual things, that keen faith, that heavenly peace, that high sanctity, that everlasting righteousness, that hope of glory, which they have, who in sincerity love and follow our Lord Jesus Christ?

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.

Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.