It is not good for a man to devote himself to preparation for dying. It is preparation for living that you need.
Our virtue should not be a deed, or a work, but a growth—a growth like a tree's, always rising higher from its own inward strength and sap.
The moment that the face is turned away from the dead past, and looks toward the living future, a new power comes. Hope is awake, and hope is infinite.
The gracious mercy that
binds Omnipotence a willing
servant to every humble prayer!
elf-restraint and honesty and independence, if they are the crown upon the head of a benignant despotism, are the very lifeblood in the veins of a self-governing republic.
To be calm and serene, and yet to be full of energy and hope of higher things,—this comes to him whose life aims at the absolute.
If you cannot argue, live! Be true and pure and lofty and devout, and He who ever seeks the souls of men shall find His way to some of them through you.
When a man means to be honest solely because honesty is right, and not because honesty is profitable, there is a perpetual and beautiful tendency of his honesty to refine and deepen itself.
Dependence upon God makes the independence of men in which are liberty and courage.