Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

- Mark Hopkins

The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surfac…

- Mark Hopkins

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

- Mark Hopkins

We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus…

- Mark Hopkins

Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fa…

- Mark Hopkins

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

- Mark Hopkins

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

- Mark Hopkins

Guided by His wisdom, strong in His strength, there maybe for you struggle and suffering, the darkness and the storm. "The disciple is not above His …

- Mark Hopkins

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

- Mark Hopkins