It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching..

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science..

He only is great at heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is g….

Idleness is paralysis..

Religion implies revelation..

More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust..

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ..

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all oth….

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying..

Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of ….

There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane, a variety ….

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose..

True greatness, first of all, is a thing of the heart. It is alive with robust and generous sympathies. It is neither behind its age nor too far befo….

Caesar was Rome's escape from communism. I expect no Caesar; I find on our map no Rubicon. But then I expect to see communistic madness rebuked and e….

Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels..

Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business..

Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service..