It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

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

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

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.