So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.