"To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with …"

"I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and t…"

"This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship …"

"Yes, death, — the hourly possibility of it, — death is the sublimity of life."

"Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to …"

"Yes, what I am to be everlastingly, I am growing to be now — now in this present time so little thought of, this time…"

"Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into…"

"Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting gr…"

"Day and night, and every moment, there are voices about us. All the hours speak as they pass; and in every event ther…"

"Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, …"