Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

True art is reverent imitation of God.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.