Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.
Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.
It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.
Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
Home is the seminary of all other institutions.
Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.
The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.
Morality is but the vestibule of religion.
Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.
Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.
The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.
Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.
Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.
For soon, very soon do men forget Their friends upon whom Death's seal is set.
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.
Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes and its martyrs in almost every age. As I look back through the vista of centuries, I can see no end of the ranks of those who have toiled and suffered in its cause, and who wear upon their breasts its stars of the legion of honor.
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.
There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.
The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.
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