The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

You may assuredly find perfect peace, if you are resolved to do that which your Lord has plainly required--and content that He should indeed require no more of you--than to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with Him.