To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

We can only know others by ourselves.