On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.

The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.