A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well ….

Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate,….

The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering se….

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love..

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract the….

No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where….

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

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. The vapo….

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servit….

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

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are..

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distru….

If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinit….

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

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity..

The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than ….

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

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

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

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

Do not judge from mere appearances..