Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

Wise men are not wise at all times.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.