Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

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

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.