There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.