The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do not doubt that many a good book has remained unwritten, or, perhaps, being written, has remained unpublished, because there floated before the mind's eye of the author, or possible author, the ideal of a better or a best, which has put him out of all conceit with his good.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?