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Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but He saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.

Goodness is richer than greatness. It consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

There is such a thing as honest pride and self-respect.

God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing.

A patient, humble temper gathers blessings that are marred by the peevish and overlooked by the aspiring.

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.

A life is black, whiten it as you will.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

Truth is poetry; it is the grandest poetry.

Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.

No great truth bursts upon man without having its hemisphere of darkness and sorrow.

Do not judge from mere appearances ...

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.

Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.

The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

Death, is not an end, but a transition crisis. All the forms of decay are but masks of regeneration
the secret alembics of vitality.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to the rotting leaf.

Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

It is not enjoined upon us to forget, but we are told to forgive, our enemies.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished and glorified through the furnaces of tribulation.

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.

Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.

God is the explanation of all things.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

A great many men
some comparatively small men now
if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

Impatience never commanded success.

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.