We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee?

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

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

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

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.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

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