The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

Religion implies revelation.

More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

Idleness is paralysis.

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety of opal. So it is with many a Christian. Till the floods of adversity been poured over him, his character appears marred and clouded by selfishness and worldly influences. But trials clear away the obscurity, and give distinctness and beauty to his piety.