Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it.

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.

... moral evil is its own curse.

I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.

The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and v__ulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, and therefore less blessed to receive than to give.