"Each man … finds life to be a discipline. Each has his separate form of discipline; but it bears upon the kindred spi…"

"[A] true man … never frets about his place in the world; but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, an…"

"There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or dese…"

"Life is a . We are thrown into it, and tried. The actual weight and value of a man are expressed in the spiritual sub…"

"An aged Christian, with the snow of time on his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are n…"

"Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse th…"

"[N]ever does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."

"Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing."

"Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in his universe is linked to that which li…"

"Consider, then, and act upon the true ends of existence. This world which stretches out before you, is but the vestib…"