Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.