The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.