Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.