An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world, We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou hast brought from heaven; for the souls Thou hast warmed with love to man, and lifted up in love to God; for the efforts of divine philanthropy which Thou hast inspired; and for that hope of a pure celestial life, through which Thy disciples triumph over death.

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.